I want to ask a question about darkness.

[Enla]

People who think that Final Fantasy wasn't 'dark' enough before have clearly never played through key games in the franchise. The entirety of FF9 deals with the concept of free will, genocide on multiple levels, your own impending death and how you cope with knowing one day you're just going to lay down and never get up again, whether or not your life even has MEANING, the fact that the souls of the dead legitimately power the most meaningful and country advancing technology in the setting, and so many other depressing subjects that would be considered one of the darker JRPGs if not for it's cartoon art style. The art style and humor which are literally there to counterbalance the sheer existential dread permeating throughout the entire narrative.

In regards to FFXVI, like Crushnight I feel that while it looks more 'dark' upfront due to surface level aesthetics I don't doubt that it'll still have the same level of camp and charm as most of the rest of the series. It just might have to counterbalance all that so it doesn't have the tonal dissonance of a steak slapped on top of a glitter sprinkle cupcake.

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People who think that Final Fantasy wasn't 'dark' enough before have clearly never played through key games in the franchise. The entirety of FF9 deals with the concept of free will, genocide on multiple levels, your own impending death and how you cope with knowing one day you're just going to lay down and never get up again, whether or not your life even has MEANING, the fact that the souls of the dead legitimately power the most meaningful and country advancing technology in the setting, and so many other depressing subjects that would be considered one of the darker JRPGs if not for it's cartoon art style. The art style and humor which are literally there to counterbalance the sheer existential dread permeating throughout the entire narrative.

In regards to FFXVI, like Crushnight I feel that while it looks more 'dark' upfront due to surface level aesthetics I don't doubt that it'll still have the same level of camp and charm as most of the rest of the series. It just might have to counterbalance all that so it doesn't have the tonal dissonance of a steak slapped on top of a glitter sprinkle cupcake.

I meant to put in FF9 too in one of my examples as yeah... 9 was DARK. That forest man.... T.T. I guess I might just be overthinking it, It feels like when I was listening to people talk around when Sonic Adventure first came out and everyone I knew was shocked at how serious the game gets towards the end. And I won't even mention SA2. But it was the same thing, to me those games felt the same as the series before. But to people who never looked past it's first stage it was never an anime like series and more a cartoonly series. So I guess I might've had flashbacks to that as people all over seem to be going goo goo over the darker artstyle.

That brings me to this question, to me this is just normal Final Fantasy artstyle. But forgetting the actual connections to yoshi p and all that, Did this reveal really give everyone XIV feels? I saw alot of 15 in this to be honest and if I ever felt like this was XIV themed it's only because they share the artstyle. And Yoshi... Hell alot of people on youtube called this the XIV expac until the title dropped. What am I missing? :O